George Cameron Grant
Playwright and hope peddler George Cameron Grant is the grandson of Lanarkshire-born Olympian George Guthrie Cameron. He's the internationally produced author of 12 full-length plays, dozens of one-acts, and countless monologues. His latest, 3 Egg Creams – A Rhapsody in the Rain, is a full-length, one-actor, seven-character show, inspired by the timeless music of the Legendary Lou Christie. This "Love Story for the Ages" was the winner of the 2021 Best Storyteller Award at NYC's United Solo Theatre Festival. Visit www.3EggCreams.com to see the many other accolades it has received.
His one-act The Lovers Kiss was named Best Play at the Think Fast Festival in Maplewood, NJ. His full-length play Fortune, inspired by the life of Black Loyalist Rose Fortune, appeared at NYC's MITF Festival to packed houses and standing ovations. It was performed by the drama students of Hoboken HS, where it was skyped live to a standing-room-only crowd at King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, the town where Rose lived the last 80 of her 90 years. Staged readings of Fortune were also performed in Annapolis Royal, and resulted in a ferry and memorial being dedicated in her honor.
Crockett's Last Stand, his play about Congressman David Crockett's stand against Andrew Jackson and his Indian Removal Act of 1830, was featured at NYC's Strawberry Festival's Summer of One Acts. L'Image, George's latest evening of one-acts about vulnerability and vanity, appeared at Jersey City Theater Center. Mints, a onewoman one-act, won Best Play at both Manhattan Rep's Summer Fest 2016 and Secret Theatre's 2016 Winter Fest. In addition, Mints and another one woman one-act, Broken, both appeared at the 2016 United Solo Festival in NYC. Broken also appeared at Manhattan Rep and MITF. Sacrifice, his “Twilight Zone episode for the stage,” was featured in MITF's Summer One Act Festival. Push, his anti-bullying "Tool for Tolerance" for the stage, has already been performed in dozens of schools, theaters and festivals in the USA and Canada, including the Hollywood Fringe Festival. It joins Epitaph, a full-length play dedicated to his Father, Francis, and 4 X’MAS, his evening of one-act Christmas plays, as published members of the Samuel French family.
George is an 8-time Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival Finalist, most recently for his play Foreclosure, also named a Finalist in the Nantucket Short Play and Strawberry Short Play Festivals. Leben, his full-length, three-woman play about mothers, daughters, life and loss, appeared at the Stage Door Repertory Theatre in Anaheim, CA. His full-length Christmas play, Heaven Cent: A Christmas Tale in Two Testaments, written on commission for the same theater, had its world premiere there two months later, and was called "One of the Year's 5 Best" by Angela Hatcher of the Orange County News.
His work as a bookwriter/lyricist/composer includes In Search of Alice and Beauty, two original musicals he created in collaboration with New York composer Michael J. Shapiro. As a screenwriter, he is a two-time participant in the NYIndependent Film Market, and has just completed his sixth screenplay, a screen adaptation of his play 3 Egg Creams – A Rhapsody in the Rain. Mr. Grant is also the writer of dozens of songs, including "Pass on the Love," performed by the legendary Persuasions, and featured in Spike Lee’s Do It A Cappella, a PBS American Masterpiece presentation.
As a graphic designer, Mr. Grant is an Addy Award winner for his advertising design work on August Wilson’s original production of Fences with James Earl Jones, and has also created posters and ad campaigns for scores of motion pictures, Academy Award® winners and nominees included.
George is the proud father of Elizabeth and Jenna, the devoted life partner of Debbie, and is a member of BMI as well as the Dramatists Guild. George can be reached on Facebook, Twitter (@cameron313), LinkedIn or Instagram, or emailed at [email protected]